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Rod, Pole and Perch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Peter Simple
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 37 , Issue 320 , May 1953 , pp. 102 - 103
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1953

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page no 102 note * wangled.

page no 102 note † inconsequential.

page no 103 note * eight-foot-and-a quarter staff.

page no 103 note † The staff is a sexpeda—a measuring-rod vi pedes long. Inasmuch as

xx sexpedae ≡ xxii decempedae ≡ actus = 5 perches ≡ 10 rods ≡ 20 staves, the induction is ineluctable that the inch derived from the sexpeda and was aliquot thereof.